George Peter

George Peter (28 September 1779-22 June 1861) was a member of the US House of Representatives (F-MD 3) from 1816 to 1819 (succeeding Alexander Contee Hanson and preceding Henry Ridgely Warfield) and from 1825 to 1827 (succeeding Warfield and preceding George Corbin Washington).

Biography
George Peter was born in Georgetown, Maryland in 1779, and he fought in the 1794 Whiskey Rebellion, commanded Fort Bellefontaine in 1806, and served as a US Army major during the War of 1812. He went on to serve in the US House of Representatives from 1816 to 1819, in the House of Delegates from 1819 to 1823, in the US House from 1825 to 1827, and as commissioner of public works in Maryland in 1855. He died in 1861.